Marianne Williamson Quotes

The way you think determines the way you feel, and the way you feel determines the way you act.

All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter.

How you think determines how you act. How you act in turn determines how others react to you.

How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking.

Thought is the parent of the deed.

Belief creates behaviors.

All your behavior results from the thoughts that precede it.

The final upshot of thinking is the exercise of volition, and of this thought no longer forms a part; but belief is only a stadium of mental action, an effect upon our nature due to thought, which will influence future thinking.

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.

What you fill your mind with is eventually translated into the words you speak, and then your words create action.

I still ponder what gets in people's minds and souls, why they do the things they do.

When you are thinking something, you have the feeling that the thoughts do nothing except inform you the way things are and then you choose to do something and you do it. That's what people generally assume. But actually, the way you think determines the way you're going to do things. Then you don't notice a result comes back, or you don't see it as a result of what you've done, or even less do you see it as a result of how you were thinking. Is that clear?

Thoughts that most frequently occupy the mind determine a man's course of action.

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.

It is up to us to make the right choice and the right decisions.

I think the human mind is fascinating. I love figuring out why people are doing what they do.

I was authorized to do everything that I did.

A great man’s actions are determined, if not foreordained, by his character.

Your joy comes from how you think, the choices that we make in life.

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

People are decisions and actions.

What we think about and talk about expands into action.

It's not can you, it's will you

You feel the way you do right now because of the thoughts you are thinking at this moment.